{mosimage}"If Iraq wants to be recognised and respected as a legitimate democratic state, it has to first show that it is committed to human rights and the rule of law, by ending the unlawful and inhumane siege of Ashraf"

{mosimage}"It is outrageous that the Iraqi authorities should be insisting on the forcible displacement of the people of Ashraf and their relocation to the deserts of Southern Iraq, at a place without facilities and which used to be a prison"